Tuesday, January 20, 2009

As much as the idea of rubbishing a company seems in bad taste, when that company has a 100% record of not delivering the goods it seems at least fair to warn potential customers in advance.Disc Wizards manufactured the album I did under the name Last Of The Real Hardmen for the Birdwar label a few years back. They somehow pixelated the artwork, or reduced the resolution, leading to a CD that looked like it had been printed on my Inkjet from internet images at home. 1000 copies ended up crushed in a skip and Birdwar got their money refunded and went elsewhere.Then Gringo Records used them to manufacture their "Oh Yeah!" sampler. They managed to do the graphics right but on the second press of it they randomly changed the font used throughout to something else.Now my housemate Gareth is the latest customer to find all is not well when he got back the run of "Gris Gris" CDs (by Mariska Baars, Robert Deters and Rutger Zuydervelt).First of all the request by the designer to match the colours exactly (by printing using Pantones) was either ignored or carried out by a poor quality printers. The colours fluctuate between copies and sometimes throughout the same sleeve. And then, upon further inspection, it turns out around 30% or more of them are finished so badly they'll have to be binned*. It looks like a gang of 2 year olds has been at them with some PVA glue. So; label types: beware.

Low Point have sorted it out though so you can get the album now from their website: www.low-point.com